lustrum

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Spanish scurriers to dictionaries were intrigued and mystified by the primary meaning of lustrum: a Latin word signifying the festival at which Romans purified themselves by sacrificing to the Gods many a pig, sheep, bull.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet his huge mike-and-movie success is less than a lustrum old.

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On September 15, 1928, Dictator de Rivera will have been in power for one whole lustrum.

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More appropriate seemed the second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years.

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These hirelings usually receive about five francs a day, but as the number of the chevaliers of the revolutionary lustrum increases, the pay diminishes, until it is finally reduced to forty sous.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron